Roles and Responsibilities of Emergency Services

PROJECT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Outline the current legislation for Emergency services covering the roles and responsibility of
Police, Fire, NHS and Military...............................................................................................3
Analyse who has responsibilities when responding the emergency incidents based upon
JESIP......................................................................................................................................4
Explain the different roles that the public services agencies play during a major incident based
on JESIP and working framework..........................................................................................5
Identify and assess the main planning steps and its importance that need to be taken into
consideration when responding to an incident based on JESIP.............................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Emergency services have been defined as public organisation whose specific job is to
take a quick and certain action for dealing with emergency that may cause due to number of
events like fire, natural disaster, chemical spills, pandemics or any accidents (Alnaggar and
Andersson, 2015). Emergency services may include police, fire brigade or ambulance services.
Proper public service and response are required in improving the physical and mental status of
such crisis victims. Home Office Emergency is the government selected option which provide
quick services of police, ambulance, fire in United Kingdom. Response Recovery Department
deals with rendering public health services to those individual who happened to have faced an
accident and now require proper response and treatment for getting better. The report will focus
on different roles of emergency responders along with explaining the value of planning
preparedness in emergency incidents. The report will further elaborate real world emergency
accidents and will discuss how such emergencies can be managed by public services.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Outline the current legislation for Emergency services covering the roles and responsibility of
Police, Fire, NHS and Military
There are different current legislations for emergency services which are highly required
in improving the status of people who are being suffering form any incident and it also outlines
the roles and responsibilities of police, NHS, fire and military during emergency. Policing and
Crime Act, 2017 has been established by UK government to make positive amendments in
governing fires rescue services and further helps in reforming the servicing of police. These
changes have been observed to alleviate efficiency and public confidence as well as maximise
local accountability (Portela and et.al., 2015). The main provision will be extended by placing
the work of police, ambulance and fire services together where the police have to take charge for
rescuing fire victims as soon as possible. The legislation has also reformed the disciplinary
system and police complaints for making surety that public has full confidence on their
capability. The role of police here is to make sure that they enhance their accountability as well
as transparency in their work. Fire and Rescue Act 2004 in UK has been developed to make sure
that fore and rescue authority are highly promoting fire protection in their area. They are
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